Bought this a couple of months ago, played it in the car two or three times through. The thing that most struck me was how front-loaded it was--the first three songs were easily the best, I thought.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
last is a doozy tho
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
new single not so hot :(
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
she's kinda descended into self-parody on it :/
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, pretty bland.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
like the melody is extremely ldr by numbers and there's not really anything else going on
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Usually she's very good at melodic hooks but... not this time.IT's a weird choice for a single.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it's ok. not really single material.
― akm, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
MOJO
― piscesx, Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
.. oops
MOJO piece is really good.
I'll pick up a copy to look at next time I'm passing a newsstand or idling in a bookshop
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
oh wait
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
MOJO NIXON collab is really good.
She's the washboard player he needed ever since Skid Roper left.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
acc to their review, Weyes Blood sings on the Joni cover.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
new album leaked and only listened to first track so far but wow at it
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:30 (three years ago) link
"tulsa jesus freak" is wild, it has this tiny bit of autotune on the vocals that makes it sound haunted, really fantastic atmosphere
album is the folkiest thing she's done, feels like a natural continuation of the first three tracks or so from NFR. pleasantly surprised
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:45 (three years ago) link
antonoff has really outdone himself with the production & arrangements here
"dance till we die" is really something
i think this is solidly her best, it doesn't reach the same peaks as say, "mariners apartment complex" and "venice bitch" but it's way more consistent overall. "let me love you like a woman" is probably the weakest track, i get why it was the lead single but really not too representative.
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
and the title track is much better in context too
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
she finally made an album that is good all the way through and isn't 20 minutes too long for its own good!
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
About to listen - sounds like Ultraviolence structurally which I am so down for
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
"white dress" namechecjs sun ra and kings of leon, she has truly gone mad with power
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
who's that singing on "breaking up slowly"?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
"white dress", "tulsa jesus freak", "dark but just a game" and "dance till we die" seem to be the highlights. super low key even by her standards. it does *sound* great. I just really need her to ditch the piano on the next one.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
also feels much less emotionally turbulent than NFR!, I suspect lots of quarantine meditation
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
I suspect lots of quarantine medication
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
i read the lyrics to white dress and hahahahhahaha no
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
somewhat ironically brad I listened to that one and wondered aloud "is this a coded message to taylor"
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
this album is the most aggressively uncommercial thing she's released so far.
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
The last album had a nine-and-a-half-minute song, fully half of which was an extended synth solo. It also had "fucking" in its title.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
yeah but it also had that sublime cover the label made her include so it would have a radio hit
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
(that's not to knock it, i really like that cover, but it kind of messes up the flow of the record)
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
arguably this is still very commercial, her demo has just changed definitively to Mojo readers
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
she has fully embraced her inner boomer
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
At her first run of gigs proper (i saw her first ever show weirdly enough) the audience was *very* Mojo; a pretty polite, sedate vibe, she'd been getting a lot of play on BBC6 etc. It was only later on that the first 10 rows became screaming teens.
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
she's always had that thing that billie eilish does too, at least based on Facebook, where guys my age post about it and say "I usually don't like pop music but this is good"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
well like "video games" initially blew up with the indie music press and then she soon crossed over to a mainstream pop audience from there but never fully committed to chasing it long-term so she's just settled with a decent cult following
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
Have the screaming teens stayed her fans (or been replaced by newer screaming teens), or have they moved on to younger stars?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
I saw her on the NFR tour and it was a more sedate crowd all around than when I saw her several years ago (at the Shoreline) where it was 98% screaming girls with interesting eyeliner and hesitation marks.
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
is that baez on 'for free'?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 12 March 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
that's weyes blood
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
ah. great baez impression then
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 12 March 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link
This album is amazing when high
― akm, Friday, 12 March 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
also a million lols at 'the men in music business conference'
― akm, Friday, 12 March 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
I think the whole lyric is pretty great tbh, and I like those moments on the album where she tries to cram in as many syllables as possible. there's gotta be honesty in there because who would lie about jamming out to kings of leon
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
that song is a great character study that treats it's subject with equal scorn and empathy
― akm, Friday, 12 March 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
also: fucking jack antanoff. this guy is probably my favorite working producer now (neck and neck with inflo). funny because his own music does nothing for me, but every other album he works on sounds amazing.
― akm, Friday, 12 March 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Is she using more falsetto than normal? I find it wearying.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 March 2021 11:15 (three years ago) link
mainly on the opener iirc?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 March 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link